On August 16, 2002, the City of Fort Pierre and West Central Electric filed for approval an agreement with respect to territorial service areas. The joint agreement provides that the following territory shall become the service territory of the City of Fort Pierre: the South one-half of the Southeast one-fourth of Section 17, and the South one-half of the Southwest one-fourth of Section 16, Township 5 North, Range 31 East of the Fifth Principal Meridian, Stanley County, South Dakota, and land immediately to the east thereof, extending to the Missouri River, which provides the eastern boundary of said area, the foregoing parcels lying adjacent and immediately north of the north boundary line of the city limits of the City of Fort Pierre.

On August 19, 2002, Clay-Union Electric Corporation filed a request for approval for the transfer of an electric service customer. Clay-Union Electric has agreed to release Rollie and Sue French's electric service to the City of Vermillion. All parties are in agreement to the electric service exchange.

VP Telecom has filed a request for an exemption from developing company-specific cost-based switched access rates contained in ARSD 20:10:27:07. The Company indicates that it does not have the available resources to determine company-specific cost-based intrastate switched access rates. VP Telecom is also requesting a waiver from the process to determine switched access rates under ARSD 20:10:27:12.

On August 21, 2002, the Commission received for approval a filing of an Amendment for DC Power Reduction Procedure, Collocation Transfer of Responsibility, Collocation Decommission and Collocation Cancellation to the Interconnection Agreement Between Qwest Corporation (Qwest) and New Edge Networks (New Edge) for the State of South Dakota . According to the filing, the Agreement is Amended by adding the terms and conditions (and associated rates where applicable) for DC Power Reduction Procedure, Collocation Transfer of Responsibility, Collocation Decommission and Collocation Cancellation as set forth in Attachments 1 through 4, and Exhibit A, attached to the filing. Any party wishing to comment on the agreement may do so by filing written comments with the Commission and the parties to the agreement no later than September 10, 2002. Parties to the agreement may file written responses to the comments no later than twenty days after the service of the initial comments.